Beyonce, winner of Best Urban Contemporary Album for ‘Lemonade’ and Best Music Video for ‘Formation,’ poses in the press room during The 59th GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center on February 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, CaliforniaPhoto: Frederick M. Brown (Getty Images)

Lemonade is the sweetest of them all.

The Associated Press has named their Top 15 albums of the decade and Beyoncé’s 2016 opus Lemonade is number one. According to the international news agency’s music editor Mesfin Fekadu, the international global icon was riding the wave of success for much of the earlier part of the decade with numerous Grammy Awards, the launch of her own Parkwood Entertainment company and 2011's 4, which Fekadu referred to as “the R&B adventure...featuring classics like Countdown, Love on Top, Party, End of Time, I Care and I Miss You.”

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But, she topped herself again with Lemonade, he said, noting how the usually private singer/songwriter/producer bared her soul, tackling relationship woes, motherhood and celebrating black pride.

Lemonade, which he referred to as “the greatest of all time” bested albums by Adelle, Rihanna, Nas, Sam Smith, Katy Perry and Kendrick Lamar.

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Queen Bey’s baby sister Solange’s Grammy Award-winning masterpiece A Seat at the Table also made the list, as did Beyoncé’s very first secret project, the 2014 eponymous platter which delivered Drunk in Love, Partition and Pretty Hurts to the Beyhive.